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Trevor Topfer - What is blockchain & how can it help NZ ag?

Trevor Topfer - What is blockchain & how can it help NZ ag?

Update: 2025-10-14

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Dom talks with Trevor Topfer, executive director of Blockchain NZ, about why a lack of government policy around emerging digital technologies such as blockchain could see New Zealand lose billions of dollars in potential GDP to foreign markets, how it improve the traceability of New Zealand’s agricultural and horticultural exports and meeting with MPs in Parliament this week along with other industry leaders.

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Trevor Topfer - What is blockchain & how can it help NZ ag?

Trevor Topfer - What is blockchain & how can it help NZ ag?

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